JESUIT ORDER (PORTUGESE PROVINCE) INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

JESUIT ORDER (PORTUGESE PROVINCE) INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

LAWS OF HONG KONG

JESUIT ORDER (PORTUGUESE PROVINCE)

INCORPORATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 1030





CHAPTER 1030.

JESUIT ORDER (PORTUGUESE PROVINCE)
INCORPORATION.

To provide for the incorporation of the Procurator in Hong Kong of
the Portuguese Province of the Jesuit Order.

[6th December, 1929.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Jesuit Order (Portuguese
Province) Incorporation Ordinance.

2. The Procurator for the time being in the Colony of the
Portuguese Province of the Jesuit Order shall be a corporation sole,
hereinafter called the corporation. and shall have the name of 'The
Procurator in Hong Kong of the Portuguese Province of the Jesuit
Order', and in that name shall have perpetual succes- sion and shall
and. may sue and be .,sued in all courts in the Colony and shall and may
have and use a common seal.

3. (1) The corporation shall have power to acquire, accept leases of,
purchase, take, hold and enjoy any lands. buildings. messuages or
tenements of what nature or kind soever and wheresoever situate, and
also to invest money upon mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages
or tenements, or upon the mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares
or securities of any government, municipality. corporation. company or
person, and also to purchase. acquire and possess vessels and other
goods and chattels of what nature and kind soever.

(2) The corporation shall further have power by deed under its seal
to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, exchange, partition, yield up,
mortgage, demise, reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands,
buildings, messuages, tenements, mortgages. debentures, stocks, funds,
shares or securities, or vessels or other goods and chattels, which are
for the time being vested in or belonging to the corporation, upon such
terms as the corporation may seem fit.

4. The legal estate in any property whatsoever transferred to the
corporation in any manner whatsoever shall in the event of the death of
the Procurator for the time being in Hong Kong of the Portuguese
Province of the Jesuit Order, or in the event of his ceasing to hold office
as such Procurator, pass to his successor in such office when
appointed.

5. (1) Whenever any person is appointed to the office of Procurator
in Hong Kong of the Portuguese Province of the Jesuit Order such
person shall within three weeks after his appointment





or within such further time as may be allowed by the Governor furnish to
the Governor satisfactory evidence of his appointment.

(2) A notification in the Gazette under the hand of the Colonial
Secretary that. such evidence has been furnished to the Governor by
such person shall be conclusive evidence of such appointment.

(Amended, 33 of 1939, Supp. Schedule, G.N. 840140)

6. All deeds and other instruments requiring the seal of the
corporation shall be scaled in the presence of the said Procurator or his
attorney and shall be signed by him or his attorney, and such signing
shall be taken as sufficient evidence of the due sealing of such deeds
and other instruments, and all deeds, instruments and other documents
and writings requiring the signature of the corporation shall be signed
by such Procurator or his attorney''

7. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed to affect the
rights of Her Majesty the Queen, Her Heirs or. Successors, or the rights
of any body politic or corporate or of. any other persons except such as
are mentioned in this Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under
them.
Originally 27 of 1929. (Cap. 293, 1950.) 33 of 1939. Short title. Incorporation. Powers of corporation. Property transferred to corporation to pass to successors. Appointment of Procurator. Execution of documents. Saving.

Originally 27 of 1929. (Cap. 293, 1950.) 33 of 1939. Short title. Incorporation. Powers of corporation. Property transferred to corporation to pass to successors. Appointment of Procurator. Execution of documents. Saving.

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